BEDLAM

Each team has one true rival(some teams have more than one)! That one team if they lost every single game that season, but somehow beat yours then it would all be worth it. One day of the year where the outcome of this one will determine your mood for the next 365. Rivalry losses are tough when they have a little distance between the teams, but when you have to share a state with them a loss becomes unbearable. In Georgia they have Clean, Old Fashion Hate, Oregon has the Civil War, in Mississippi get ready for the Egg Bowl, you've heard of the Iron Bowl in Alabama, but in Oklahoma we have BEDLAM.

Where even though one team is clearly the others big brother it hasn't stoped what has been a one sided rivalry into becoming nationally known. With two of the last three games going to OT. All three have been decided at the very end. With the names of Bell and Hill terrorizing the opposing teams dreams. No Sooner can lay in bed at night without remembering Tyreek Hill taking a punt to the house to force OT after Bob elected to rekick. While Cowboys dreams are haunted with the sight of The Bell Dozer on the ground in 2012 and in the air in 2013. Tonight's game has a new flare to it as a Big 12 Champion will be crowned. Instead of just being handed the Bedlam Bell after the game, the victor will also take home the crystal bowl. For the Sooners even more at stake as a seat at the College Football Playoff table hangs in the balance.  

So throw the series record out of the books(Oklahoma 84-17-7). It comes down to just one primetime game on ABC for all the Big 12 has to offer. So whether you wear Orange and Black or Crimson and Cream, whether you chant Orange Power or Boomer Sooner. There's one thing that will always stand the test of time...Oklahoma is and will always be The SOONER State!

Thanksgiving Weekend Football

Nothing beats sitting down with your family on that fourth Thursday in November and having some good ole bird(I prefer ham personally, but I hear smoked Jayhawk has been a trend of late). Anyways you'll sit down Thursday afternoon for Thanksgiving dinner number one. Once you get done stuffing your face full of mashed potatoes and canned yams you'll watch the Dallas Cowboys get lit up by the undefeated Carolina Panthers. After that it's time to head to the in-laws for dinner number two. You know what that means more food for you to devour as you watch the Texas Longhorns get obliterated by Mahomes and the Red Raiders(something you can truly be thankful for this holiday season). Then you'll sleep it off and prepare for what's going to be the best weekend of College Football yet. It all starts Friday too! So when you go to the fridge to grab some leftovers from that Thanksgiving feast here's some games you can watch as you prepare to add a new notch to your usual belt.

Friday games
11am ABC - 15 Navy (9-1) @ Houston (10-1)

230pm ABC - 4 Iowa (11-0) @ Nebraska (5-6)

630pm ESPN - 7 Baylor (9-1) @ 19 TCU (9-2)

Saturday games
11am ABC - 8 Ohio State (10-1) @ 10 Michigan (9-2)
11am ESPN - 1 Clemson (11-0) @ South Carolina (3-8)

230pm ESPN - Penn State (7-4) @ 5 Michigan State (10-1)
230pm ESPN2 - 14 North Carolina (10-1) @ NC State (7-4)
230pm CBS - 2 Alabama (10-1) @ Auburn (6-5)
230pm ABC - 22 UCLA (8-3) @ USC (7-4)

6:15pm ESPN2 - 18 Ole Miss (8-3) @ 21 Mississippi State (8-3)
630pm ESPN - 13 Florida State (9-2) @ 12 Florida (10-1)
630pm FOX - 6 Notre Dame (10-1) @ 9 Stanford (9-2)

7pm ABC - 3 Oklahoma (10-1) @ 11 Oklahoma State (10-1)

Enjoy that leftover Turkey and enjoy all of these great football games. Happy Thanksgiving!

College Football Playoff Scenarios

The football season is in the back stretch. Seniors are playing their final home games and for those who aren't going to a bowl game their last snaps of collegiate football are upon them. Tonight though the college football playoff committee will release it's third rankings. It'll be interesting to see where everyone ends up, but they'll still be controversy at the end of the day.

Four out of the 5 teams ranked 6-10 lost on Saturday basically eliminating themselves from playoff consideration. An a one loss Oklahoma looks to make it's move as they knocked off the number 6 undefeated Baylor Bears on the road last week. So there are still a lot of moving parts in all this. I wrote out how I think the playoffs are going to turn out at the end of the season. I didn't just the pick four teams I gave you eight teams that I think can make the final four at the end of the season and the scenarios needed. 

College Football Playoff

• Ohio State/Iowa 

    • As long as both these teams are undefeated when they play each for the Big Ten championship

    • Key Game: Big Ten Championship

• Alabama

    • As long as they win out

    • Key game: SEC Championship vs Florida

    • Florida gets in with a win over Alabama in the SEC Championship, a Notre Dame or a one loss Big Ten Champion, and finishing with only one loss. 

• Oklahoma/Oklahoma State

    • As long as the winner of this matchup wins out.

    • Key game: Bedlam

• Clemson 

    • has to go undefeated

    • Key game: ACC Championship vs North Carolina

    • If Clemson loses Notre Dame gets in as long as the Irish win out.

Thunder Take 11.5

The Oklahoma City Thunder lost their second straight game last night. After starting off the season with three straight wins coming against the Spurs, the Magic, the Nuggets they then lost on the road at Houston and at home last night to Toronto. The loss upset a lot of Thunder fans for the main fact that they were leading late and could not close the game out again for the second straight game. It's was only November 4th, but Thunder fans remember they missed the playoffs by only one game a season ago and that all 82 games do matter. Especially when you compete the NBA Western Conference.  

Kevin Durant and Russel Westbrook were the high scorers for the Thunder with 27 and 22. Westbrook had 16 assists on the night and 10 in the first half. Enes Kanter came off the bench and had 15 points and 6 boards in 17 minutes. While Steven Adams the man who starts over Kanter had 10 points, 7 boards, and four blocks in 27 minutes. Here's a look at Westbrook highlights against the Raptors via the NBAHighlightsDaily youtube account.

Thunder couldn't stop Toronto guard DeMare DaRozan who lit up the Thunder for 28 points half of those coming from the free throw line. Following DaRozan in scoring was Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas with 17 points a piece. But it was DaRozan who came up clutch down the stretch willing his team to the victory and moving to 5-0 on the season as the Thunder fall 3-2. OKC returns to action tonight when they take on the Chicago Bulls in the Windy City as they wrap up this four games in five nights span.